Al Michaels: TNF's Taylor Swift coverage will be 'in moderation'

Fans tuning into the Thursday Night Football matchup between the Kansas City Chiefs and Denver Broncos can expect to see less of Taylor Swift than usual during the broadcast.

Play-by-play announcer Al Michaels told Sports Illustrated's Jimmy Traina that Amazon plans to be restrained in its coverage of the pop star.

"What we're gonna do tonight, everything in moderation," Michaels said. "Our crew talked about it this morning. You can't make a sideshow the show. The vast majority of the audience are tuning in to watch a football game. There are people, I don't know how many, it could be a sizable number, but it's certainly not a majority, that if you trained the camera on her all night long, they'd be satisfied with that. This is not what we're doing. ...

"There might be an appropriate shot or a couple. I don't know what the number is going to be. If (Travis) Kelce scores six touchdowns, who the hell knows what we're going to do. But for the most part, just in moderation. The game is still the important element here. ... After that, you sort of make it, one of my favorite words, farcical."

Swift plans to be at Arrowhead Stadium on Thursday, TMZ reports, to cheer on the Chiefs and her new love interest, tight end Kelce. She attended the Chiefs' 41-10 win over the Chicago Bears on Sept. 24 and their 23-20 victory over the New York Jets on Oct. 1.

Kelce called out the NFL and NBC Sports for their coverage of Swift during the Chiefs-Jets game, saying they were "overdoing it a little bit."

He is listed as questionable for Thursday's matchup due to a knee injury but is expected to play.

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